Time-based media is distributed and promoted in a social networking environment. Accounts of a social networking system author social media content items (SMCIs) from which a social networking system infers relevance of content to users of those accounts. Content distributors submit time-based media content to the social networking system, which creates distributor SMCIs containing the time-based media content. Accounts are identified to receive distributor SMCIs based on SMCIs previously authored by those accounts as well as identifying information and the subject of the SMCI. Content promoters may add promotional material to distributor SMCIs, which the social networking service sends to additional accounts.
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2. The method of claim 1, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI to the first set of users of the social networking system associated with the received one or more topics from the content promoter.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising, prior to the transmitting, identifying the first set of users as being associated with the received one or more topics from the content promoter.
4. The method of claim 3, the identifying including identifying the first set of users based on one or more of inferred interest, demographic information, and geographic location.
5. The method of claim 1, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI to the second set of users of the social networking system associated with the one or more topics associated with the first SMCI.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising, prior to the transmitting, identifying the second set of users as being associated with the one or more topics associated with the first SMCI.
7. The method of claim 6, the identifying including identifying the second set of users based on one or more of inferred interest, demographic information, and geographic location.
8. The method of claim 1, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI to the third set of users of the social networking system associated with the first content distributor providing the first SMCI.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first video clip is a portion of a first video broadcast, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI concurrently with the first video broadcast.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first video clip is a portion of a first video broadcast, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI after the first video broadcast has ended.
11. The method of claim 1, the modifying including modifying the first SMCI to include the promotion information without notifying the content promoter.
12. The method of claim 1, the transmitting including transmitting the modified first SMCI without notifying the content promoter.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first SMCI includes a video clip and wherein the promotion information includes text, and wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to modify the first SMCI by including the text within or adjacent to the video clip to generate the modified first SMCI.
15. The system of claim 13, wherein the first SMCI includes a video clip and wherein the promotion information includes an image, and wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to modify the first SMCI by including the image within or adjacent to the video clip to generate the modified first SMCI.
19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the set of predetermined content topics includes one or more of a genre, a genre and at least one corresponding sub-genre, an event, a personality, an entity, a location, and an object.
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